Beautiful and very young is Philo-Sophia
And poetry, her ally in the service of the good.
As late as yesterday Nature celebrated their birth,
The news was brought to the mountains by a
Unicorn and an echo.
Their friendship will be glorious, their time has no limit.
Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction.

— from “Incantation” by Czesław Miłosz

Elfie Raymond (1931–2012) taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1964 to 2007. She has written several papers as well as the occasional haiku. In 1998, she founded Campbell Corner.